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The Wife Who Was Visited By Her Dead Husband
By Kenny Paul Smith In Beyond Knowing: Mysteries & Messages of Death & Life from a Forensic Pathologist (2006), Janis Amatuzio relates a remarkable and, yes, mysterious case she worked on in her decades-long career as a crime scene investigator. “As I started through the tunnel that connects the hospital and the professional building,” her…
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Are You Looking For a Sign?
by Tiffany Pham Whether to mess with my head or teach me a lesson, I believe there are universal forces spinning strings within my life. I often hear phrases like “everything happens for a reason” or “this is a sign,” but I never took them seriously until I started noticing coincidental events happening to me.…
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They Had To Be Blind, In Order To See?
By Michael Jarvis With this piece I intend to draw a thread between the ancient and yet still prevalent trope of blind oracles and seers with the real-world phenomena of advanced insights which come about in times of physical limitation. I believe there is compelling evidence to suggest that, in states of compromised sensory input,…
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I Had To Learn To Dream, Confidently!
by Kaitlyn Ferretti Astral projection, lucid dreaming, out-of-body-experiences (OBEs), the idea of setting my spirit free of my body, such things have always fascinated me. At first, I could hardly allow my mind to believe that my soul was capable of leaving my body behind to explore other realities and dimensions. This perspective, I learned,…
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The Holy (that is, Paranormal) Mysteries of Orthodoxy
By Caleb Kench In these times of ever-advancing sciences and thought, the paranormal and the religious are frequently portrayed as being in opposition to each other. Paranormal events are now often mutually disassociated with Christianity; meaning that the secular world views them as an entirely separate class of phenomena, while many Christian denominations either view…
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Is the Paranormal in Our Genes?
By Avery Teal People inherit traits from their parents, who inherited traits from their parents, and so on. This phenomenon is genetics, the study of heredity in organisms. Genetics accounts for a family with four generations of blue eyes and blonde hair and grandsons with the same crinkle-eyed smile as their grandfathers. But more than…
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Our Forgotten Paranormal Foundations
By Nicola Cates It can be easy to forget humanity has always been paranormal. Even in our prehistory we interacted with reality beyond our physical limits. Somewhere along the way we buried our paranormal past, with shameful indignation, in order to promote the false history of a disenchanted and enlightened species. This is of course…
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American Magics And The Mirror Of Erised
By Kenny Paul Smith In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, a very young Harry stumbles upon The Mirror of Erised. This highly enchanted looking glass shows those who peer into it precisely what they most desire, for as long as they are willing to look, though it is unable to give them what it shows…
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The Horrification of the Paranormal
Kenny Paul Smith Search “Paranormal” on Google Images. In a fraction of a second, tens of millions of images are returned, most of which implicitly define paranormal (i.e., that which is beyond the normal) in disturbing terms, to say the least: demonic possession, alien abduction, unseen forces slamming doors and hurling household objects left and…
Paranormal Culture: A Popular Journal in the Superhumanities! 